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French-Provençal en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /fɹɛnt͡ʃ pɹɒvɑːnˈsɑːl/

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, rare) Franco-Provençal, Arpitan.
   • [A law] was enacted, controlling the guardianship of the language and the culture of the ‘Albanians, Catalans, Germanics, Greeks, Slovenians and Croatians and of those speaking French, French-Provencal, Friulan, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian’[.] 2006, J. M. Smits, Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, →ISBN, page 352:
   • His best work in French-Provençal was written in the decade 1855-66: Marenda a Tsesalet, La bataille di vatse a Vertozan, Megnadzo de Monseur Abonde. 1987, Giuseppe Zoppelli, La poesia in Valle d'Aosta, Forli: ed. Forum/Quinta Generazione, page 07:
   • From the district so influenced by the Provençal, we pass by some intermediate grades, to that which is plainly French-Provençal, above all in the valleys of the southern Stura, of Oreo (Val SoanaL of the Dora Baltea (Val d'Aosta). 1912, Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, The Americana: a universal reference library, volume 11:
   • The Saône and the Rhône are considered the eastern limits of French, since beyond these rivers from Bescançon on the north to Grenoble on the south a mixed dialect called French-Provençal was used. 1917, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopædia, volume 9, page 245:

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